Living Through the Ordinary—Ryudai Takano, Elle Pérez, and Emiko Inoue in Conversation
Join us at ICP as renowned photographer Ryudai Takano is joined in conversation by art historian Emiko Inoue and artist Elle Pérez. Takano, Inoue, and Pérez will discuss queer representation beyond the body, the republication of Takano's seminal photobook In My Room (2005) as a new edition titled In My Room Revisited (2026), as well as their recent exhibition Takano Ryudai: kasubaba Living through the ordinary, recently on view at Hiroshima MOCA and the Tokyo Museum of Photographic Art. Throughout his thirty-year career as a photographer, Ryudai Takano has explored a wide range of themes, from gender and sexuality to the politics of Tokyo's urban landscapes, and more recently, the visual and conceptual possibilities of shadows.
